He's been nigh about twenty years, and them cool Yon fool Dune broke magic
and the world ain't been right since monster Freon from them other worlds running round
tero cles and down in a bole and got the gree Gree water. There's
some kind of evil set on sort of good many folk, So beware,
my friends, go carefully. Amy Lazy brought them else. The mucky water
gonna lead you to the grave. So come with us as we go on
another fool's quest, all the true blood. Last time, you guys had
just left the chest strepreneur right, yep, um, yeah, you'd ordered
a chest for Anthronoxis to store trinkets in gold. Yeah, store store tributes.
Right, then you'll have a chest full of them when you next passed
that way. Which is adamant that we are not going this is correct.
I don't ever since I bet you guys, everything around me is several times
larger than I want it to be. I don't know what you did,
which is magnitudes of difficulties more than It's been weeks since I met something that
I couldn't fit inside its stomach hole, and it's really starting to bother me.
So the shop where you bought the chest isn't it's not really like a
shop shop. It's it's part of the caravan office for the trading company that
runs the merchant barge went to runoff. Um and I mean they sell you
know, packing supplies basically, ok Um they have Yeah, they too.
Obviously they sell higher end things to their higher end clients, like a fancy,
fancy chest for dragons. But um, as you leave you it's it's
sort of part of the same complex. Via Bill is coming out of different
different part of the building basically anyway, he sees you guys as he comes
out of another door over there, and Seeson starts heading over and says,
oh yo, boy yo boys done ten Yeah business in there too. Huh.
Well, as I had a rush off and take care of that,
take care of that. Report to the company there by what happened to they
bodge. But I could have given you guys a little interest DUCTU the town.
I suppose you know you're gonna be staying a few days as a place
called three Legged Snake, the three legged snake, Three legged Snake, you
tell him a bay Bill sent you the get you a room that sounds cool
and I'm about the head over to uh, the great terrapin, and he
sort of gestures over his shoulder, like, you know, pointing behind him
at the door he came out of. Dory came going to French Canadian.
Now got the got the excellent all that stuff. Um points the dory came
out of. He said, I gotta go to a great terrapin the retail
location they say to drop off the money for the goods. And he pats
his little like bag that he's carrying. You can hear the jingle of coins.
I gotta show you where it's that. You guys won't do some shopping?
Yeah, I mean, well escort you too, so nobody tries to
rob you. This town of Runoff is not known for being super kind of
visitors. Crossing. Oh yeah, this town of Crossing is not super well
known for being kind of visitors. Well, you're dressed like that. They're
gonna think I'm at scooting you, he says, and eyeballs your your fancy
clothes there, Oh these old things. That's all right for me. If
I'm caring money, they're gonna go for you. I can, I can
make a break flood. He's fine. Tory press, I got your back
then old mood here. Yeah. He leads you through the town always and
it's it's not real far from here, but you kind of get away from
the more like industrious dock district and into a more sort of commercial district.
VC foodst ends here and there, and little little stall set up selling all
kinds of things. Um, but he hads you heads you towards a pretty
nice looking sort of mercantile, not a little you know, a little boardwalk
front porch and stuff. Keep you up out of muddon uh walks in and
it's it's got a sign on the door of a turtle with like like a
globe on its back that seems to be the symbol of their their company,
the Great Terrapin Trading Company. Underneath it. That's an interesting symbol there.
I think it's turtles all the way down. No, there's words underneath it.
Oh, okay, goods list inside the shops, clean and well organized,
shelves here for weapons in armor, shelves over there for rope and ten
foot poles and things like that. Everything's got its places, all clearly priced
and everything bill Head's right straight to the back. There's a counter with a
guy there at the cash register and he says something to the guys. You
guys are kind of taking a gander around. And dude goes and he says,
uncle, get Travis. And he goes and comes back out with a
short sort of sort of balding George Costanza looking, Dude, I look,
I look from Elmer to Travis and back from Travis to Elmer, and I'm
like, it's uncanny. I don't know you're talking about. Here's not a
foot taller and Elmer, but it's like it's like a brother from another mother.
Bro, he's not as he's not in as good as shape as Elm
or either. Helmer's ripped. We got way more hare too, uncanny,
less hairy, and how's he going? I just I just scribble roll for
hair. As uh As the cashier goes to get Travis out of the back,
Bill comes back over. You guys says I gotta go meet with him.
You're welcome to come if you won't. I don't know if there's anything
in it for you, but he might have a rewind. Oh uh,
so they say, Reward, let's go check it out. Bro. Yeah,
not sure. We just we just rode all the way here and fed
a dragon so that we could work. It sounds great. Yeah, wait,
no a reward. I don't think we have to work anymore. Oh,
I think he's giving it to us now. No, I thought they
were gonna make us do something. Okay, Then they brought him their boat.
Remember you had a big pile of statueize people and a bunch of them
stone birds. You brought him more than what they came off with. So
Travis walks over. He looks a little overwhelmed, like he's just overworked.
He walks over and sort of so you the guys need to talk to me
about whatever happened to the barge. You can come on, follow me,
And he leads you back around the counter and threw a doorway into an office
and it's a it's a small office. But he gets behind the desk and
sits down and have a seat and gestures there's only two chairs, and there's
the three of you and Bill, who immediately sits in one of them.
This is a really nice office. It's like Elmer sized. I take the
second chair of Immediately. It's hot and humid in there and uncomfortable, and
there's like this strange buzzing sound coming from the overhead lamp. Kind of sticky
in here, Bro start kicking my feet that are definitely at home because you
don't reach the floor correct. Now, look, the barge is running three
days late already, maybe it's four. I don't even know it's running late
already. If you guys can just tell me what happened, I'll get the
paperwork done. I can get on with my day. Bill speaks a whale.
So, yeah, Bodge never made it across, and we found it
in the swamp. Everyone tying to Stone and he goes on to tell him
how heroic you guys were to bring the barge back to Crossing and then bring
it or bring it back to Runoff and then all the way back to cross
and everything. He's really talking you up. But the guy's like, look,
well, if he goes through the whole story, tells him, you
know, he'd told you guys things and said I might put a slight discount
on Now say, look, if you guys already got a discount, that's
just gonna make more work for me bookkeeping wise. So thanks a lot for
that. But you're welcome seere what like like gophers like Aaron runners h,
we BUTONAFID adventurers, bro, I'm a goblin. It's a different word.
And look. He pulls a drawer open on his desk and pulls out a
little card. He says, just if you guys could do me one more
favor since the last one worked out so good for me. Take this card.
Go back to the barge. Count how many statues there are? I
need an exact number, by that many stone to flesh potions. Bring me
the card back. You're gonna need to keep the receipt your air and runners,
right, didn't didn't we already know how many because we counted and yeah,
I think it was nine. Right, we were looking for ten and
there were nine. I think you were looking for twelve and there were eleven.
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah it doesn't Yeah, so oh we
already know how many statues exactly? There are eleven statues exactly. You're positive
there's not just ten. That doesn't matter to me. When the bird attack
didn't eat any of the statues, No, did you try to eat you?
Oh? Yeah, one of them is missing most of a hand,
but yeah, that's gonna suck after the potion. Most like, I wonder
if it will be healed like it just comes out scarred. You don't want
to call on them, you think you remember? That's fine, but I'm
not reimbursing you if you get extra potions. Bro, Well, we just
brought back your boat that you wouldn't have if we didn't step in, So
why don't you come up with some coin before we do anything more? I
stopped trying to jerkis around. Bro. Obviously you'll be paid. Yep,
right now. We haven't done the job yet. Is done to flesh potions
yet? So where do we go and get those? Bro? Alchemists?
Oh? Apothecary something I don't know how he's an Apothecary's right up for you
on tap. Look at lou broke your make your persuasion. Check what happens
when they don't work? It can't be cured. What do you mean they're
too far gone? That's got nothing to do with me. That's some special
magic we're working on the time. Check the expiration date. Okay, eleven
eleven, I rolled the two. I rolled the thirteen for his insight.
Yeah, it's like I'd rather get a brand that I trust. Oh,
that's fine, we'll do that. That's great, So take the card.
I'll take it, and I'll give it. Tellmer, I just didn't want
him to get down from the chair. Give me the potions. I'm gonna
get started on this paperwork, all right. Come, and he just starts
runing through a file cabinet, pulling out eleven copies of the same form.
Here's my thought, right, Well, so we'll head out to go get
it. Yeah, and then once we're out of earshot, I'm just gonna
say, here's my thought. We buy six potions, we cut him in
half, we pocket the difference, and then we have a half a potion
left. Yeah, that one guy will probably enjoy it because then when he
becomes flash again, maybe his arm will be the half of him that's still
stone. That's yeah, that's probably what will happen. I'm just hoping that
wherever the rest of the stone is, it doesn't turn back into flesh,
because that's going to be unfortunate. Does it have to be attached to be
affected by the potion? I don't think it does, actually, do we
know where the extra hand is? Pretty sure? You can you can carve
a statue and then use that it turns into a lump of meat. Dinner.
This met Maine way to eat me. You just start with stone.
So you guys left the cramped office and headed back out through the store.
And as I'm all going off the doors like that, Now, what a
dude, I know? And he had a turtle on his wall. That
seems like a nice animal. M depend depends on the turtle. I mean,
buy you bills nice. I don't trust him. Reasonable. You're just
selling people other people's stuff. That's not very moral. Now, let's go
buy six potions, get back out on the street and just just wandering.
But we need a receipt. We've got to get twelve. Okay, fine,
we'll get twelve. We'll get the receipt, little turn six. It's
fun. Yeah, we'll cut the We'll cut six and then keep six and
yeah we'll figure there we will make profit off this six potion addition twelve pay
for you six extra empty vials. Yeah, we're never going to work in
this town again. No, no truth. I've been doing this for years.
They haven't got out. It's fine. See, guys, just just
choosing direction at random and wandering until you spot somewhere that's likely, right,
Yeah, I asked, just hit in my hand Okay, cooling that way
fair enough. Um Well, the first thing that draws your attention actually is
a little commotion. There is a real crazy looking guy, you know,
crazy hair, big shaggy beard, kind of dirty toga that he's wearing,
standing on a corner of block a couple of blocks down, and he's obviously
quite drunk. You can smell him from quite a way. As a way,
just shouting and carrying out about its warlocks. What ditter holder dum portals,
we're gonna bringing our master's closer. It's just hollering, doom saying that
kind of thing, sounding crazy. Just a few people standing around, don't
believe him. Hold on, hold on talking about he's making some good ports.
Uh. He passed by and eventually, as you're just kind of getting
out of earshot of him. Comical. Next time, I'm going to pull
my cl phone out and just record him while he's doing it. Uh.
As you're just getting out of earshot at him, you come to another intersection
and look down one way and there's this bright pink building looks like a like
a gingerbread house or I don't know, candy cottage, big like donut pink.
You know that hot that homer sipson donut um with white tram and there's
a big big merchant shingle merchant and shingle hanging over the doors just has four
s's big white, real fancy sign. But it's just got four uses and
green. That must be the house. It's like the house of s.
And you can smell like essential oils, just you know, flowers and eucalyptus
and lavender and roses and all those smells all just mixing from blocks away.
You've been smelling it for a while and realized that's where it's emanating from.
Is this an apothecary? Does your house smell like this? Almer? Yes,
I go, I'm want to go to the pinks. Yeah, to
it. I put a kerchip or something over my face because it's really clinging
my nose. But that's pretty strong. No wonder, Elmer sneezes all the
time. His house smells like this, and that the swamp smells like that.
No wonder, he's got a hard time sneezing. I don't sneeze,
I'm not you're talking about never sneezed. But maybe he's got allergies or something.
You go up the steps and pull the door open. There's a little
silver bell that dingles, you know, dinglingling when you pull the door open,
dinglingling. I just came pushing that bell. It's like attached the door
two more times, ing okay. Inside. As he opened the door,
that the the cloud of aroma a roma just almost knocks you over. It's
a physical thing inside, but you know, eyes or water anyway are immediately
discovered down thing. At the same time, it's just packed little shop.
There's rows and rolls of shelves with very little space between them, like elm
or fits just fine, but Pilzer's got to kind of turn sideways to fit
through the aisles. And there's just all kinds of little knickknacks and chotchkeys,
these little little figurines with great big eyeballs doing que things. And next to
that there's little jars of essential oils like lavender and eucalyptus and things like that.
And right next to that there's a little jug labeled eye of new in
another little strand with a bunch of dried bat wings on it, and things
like that, all packed on the shelves no seeming rhyme or reason. But
as the little bell jingles looking around. I guess this isn't a spanky candle.
Huh. There's a little little old lady's voice you can hear from the
back one moment. Okay, you also see there's there's finished potions of several
varieties on some of the shelves too. Here and there. I go start
inspecting the finished potions and commenting on them, like I know what they are.
Well, yes, that's that's good work. That's good work. It's
a little rudimentary. But you're checking out the shelves. Everything's very clearly labeled.
They seem to take care to label things correctly and clearly. But like
I said, it's just not well organized that there's tons of potions for sale
and various ingredients and spell components and things like that. As you're checking it
out for a minute, a little old lady comes out. I start putting
things in alphabetical order, start rearranging things. This is clearly not where this
belongs. She she doesn't notice that you're you're changing her organization because she really
doesn't have a scheme for things here. If you were searching for a specific
thing, you're pretty sure to take her three hours and find. It feels
never to find something interesting that has something floating in it. You just book
poking at it. Right, you're doing that wrong. At an apothecary shop,
you have to start them by color. That way, the things that
look alike are next to each other. It avoids confusion. Out got you,
I'll start start working on this shelf here. Yeah, but this chick
must be an amateur. Oh you can. She should come work for you.
They everybody has to start somewhere. You know. She comes out.
It's a little old tortal woman. And so I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
How can I help you today? Oh? Three of you? Do
you work for the Great Terrapin two? The Great the Trading? No?
No, I'm one of the Steps that Well, welcome to my shop.
I suppose, thank you. This is Step Sisters Soaps and Sundries. Pretty
sure, I suppose Steps Sisters Soaps and Soaps and Sundry. Pleasure to meet
you. Are you one of the Step Sisters. I am, But you
can call me Grandma Rose. That's what most colored rose. That's that's sweet.
Oh. I would have assumed her name would started started with an ass.
That's strange as a moving jars. Is there a particular scent of soap
that you desire that we could make for you? You got one that makes
like stone? People not stone? Oh you're not here for soap? Oh
no, I guess not. Oh well that's interesting. Yes, I can
certainly make a stone to flesh potion. We're gonna need like a dozen of
them, a dozen and even dozen, well eleven, I think, yeah,
yeah, eleven, And I need a receipt. Well he has an
accountant, No, almer, I gave you that card. Yeah, I
hand over the card. You could have this. Oh oh well, I'll
just put them on the card. Then they're going to be a hundred cold
each. Oh yeah, we're not. Well, I guess like the douche
dude is gonna pay for this. I forgot his name. All right,
Well, i'll get them started. But well, Grandma Dorothy's using the cauldron
tonight. I'm sure you could smell the soap she's making. They won't be
ready until tomorrow. Oh that's cool, all right, that's try by tomorrow
afternoon to pick them up out. And as she's saying this, she's scratching
out a receipt for you, and uh, gets the what are those things,
the knucklebuster take an imprint of the card, the old school credit card
machine. Yahun kunk ye. Look at this lie. I keep twisting it
in the jar, and it keeps staring at me. I saw a painting
like that one time. I was pretty weird. If we're moved in the
room and kept looking at me. He was like, well, that's creepy.
It's a little tentacle waving around in one of the jars, still still
moving on its own. We're going around a little bit um. She finishes,
finishes, writing up your receipt and doing whatever they do with What do
those things even do? Did you have to send those in? I don't
know, make an imprint to the card anyway. I think it was that
you'd have one was the top part, which was like white, and the
other was like the carbon paper. And so he had a copy for you
and a copy for them. It's like the pink one and the white one
or yellow one or old just staples your copy to the receipt and hands it
to you. Come back tomorrow afternoon and I don't have them ready for you.
Well, well that was easy enough. Cool. They should upgrade their
system. My uncle Daddy has had this thing called a debit card that was
pretty slick. M yeah, I think we can get one of those things
and give it to anthron Axis. They like money. Maybe we can steal
a debit card. I also like steal thing. I mean, yeah,
and I find one. I don't know how here your dad got a credit
card. It does seem to be socially acceptable to just take stuff if the
owner turns to stone. So if we can just find a way to make
that happen, I draw mood, Bro, I ask for permission to take
this, Thank you very much. I don't know about a debit card.
That's a crabbit card. Crabbate card? What's that stand for? Beats me.
I can't be held responsible for the things I say. I got so
many middle fingers weaseled out of that one. Well that does it for this
shelf? Um? Should we go or should I start working on this second
shelf? He mustn't help BRO get the first one up completely alphabetized. No
no, I switched to color. Oh yeah, yeah, it looks very
cool though, health potions of potions of fire breathing or just side by by
shelf, so all the red ones are on tile. And then the orange
ones, and luckily there was seven shelves. I'm just gonna start switching tags
up of potions under a little dot in all those zeros and ohs, make
a like eyeballs. This is how stayed in business this long. I make
sure that nobody else's potions work right either industrial sabotage. Wait, sucker leg
sha these gumble y'all y'ah down here in the bios, say Clay magnis feet.
We're gonna take a quick break to grab us some crawlins and maybe dress
us up or move a lot of had a lot of it is who y'all
hold on tight. We're gonna be right back after this, you see,
ship, I told you we'd be right back. Time to get back to
the I'm music mall let them good times roll, all right? So yeah,
she she, She goes on about her business. Did you guys want
to check out the shelves more to see what was for sale? H yeah?
Uh Grammar Rose, do you have any kind of like board wax?
Well, I've got some bees wax. Sure I could something like that.
Yeah. Uh. I was on the way up here. I was thinking
mathman while since I hit the beach, my surfing. You, but I
need to make a board and I'm eventually gonna use some board wax. Like
I can find that for you. Help me look for it. It's sort
of a pale yellow color. It should be with the other pale okay,
probably down here, like on the fifth shold room. I found a jar
here that says ear wax is that similar? Close? That should be with
the with the oranges. She's on board with color. That's how it's organized
in alchemy shops. Now, I think that color the things that look similar
together. You can just range your entire shop like that. You know right
where to get him. She finds a big old lump of bees wax for
you, and oh, I could let that go for one gold piece.
Oh yeah, sure, hands it over to you. Cool, but I
could do this was some of that mail a gun got it all oiled up
and greasy. Are we still out of healing potions? I still have a
couple, I think, do you? Yeah? Yeah, he was giving
all his uh well, he was watering his down and giving them to you.
Yeah. I was gonna say, I was gonna say you probably actually
drake one. Yeah, you had one at full strength and as you're shuffling
things around on that shelf, though, you do find the her little statue
of healing potions where she's got six of them. How much are they?
Fifty gold each? Oh? I only have fifty gold after paying for that
chest. What'd we just put him on the card? Guy was gonna douche
You wanted an itemized receipt, so I think that would probably come back to
bite us in the rear. Man, you have one for the stone to
flesh potions. Yeah, that's true. Well, I see no problem with
this. Hey, you got the card. Yeah, let's take those two
and one empty empty vial. She'll toss the she'll toss the empty violin for
free. Cool. I'm going to take one eleventh of each of those potions
out of them, it's gotta it's gotta come in and one eighth Like that
way you can subtract it from the dye. Role. Actually make perception.
Give me perception checks real quick. Because you're shopping around a little all of
us place. Yeah, or anyone who's shopping, well you you for sure,
because you're organizing shells too. I'm gonna guess an eight doesn't do it.
Yeah, we got a straight let move in. We're too busy trying
to figure out how to rob this guy. So far, So you get
the six healing potions, and do you need to receipt with these two?
Oh? No, you you keep your paper for that one. Um,
do you have anything cool in here we should know about? That? Isn't
just healing potions? Oh? Yes, I have some other potions I have?
Well, right over, I think she starts watering around the shop.
I think it was on this shelf. I hear it is, and she
pulls out. What color was it? Well, it's sort of a pale
blue. See you two little vials. These are potions of water walking,
and next to them this even paler, bluer color. These are potions of
animals speaking. Oh can can I take two of those same credit card?
Two of each of them? Oh? Um, sure it will be eighteen
gold pieces. Okay, yeah, yeah, just thrown on the card.
So so six healing potions, two potions of animal speaking in two potions of
water walking. We still don't need a receipt, and we prefer you don't
keep one either, and I don't. I don't usually keep many potions in
stock, most of them might create to order if there's anything you need though,
I can. I can brew them up. It's just I've got a
big order that I've got to work on in the morning for stone to flesh
potions, so it might take a while. Yeah, yeah, that was
our order. Oh it was your order yet? Okay, well that was
a sentence. So I think we're good unless you guys can think of a
potion that you want brewed. No, I just brewed. If need right,
I'm cool, man, right, come back to pick up your order
tomorrow. Then do we need to pay for the socks in the in the
brewing process, there is that included the Yeah, right, you're not supposed
to know about that. We don't bring nothing. Don't worry about it.
We don't bring that up. I'm sorry. I told you that in the
confidence. But hey, is there a place around town that we can buy
a smash for socks because I think we're kind of running low. Well I
think the Great Trap and Store would have socks, though, so nearly everything.
Or there's a tailor just up the street on this side, just a
block. Are your socks not made out of tarp? Uh? No,
tarp. That's how I make my clothing. Man, Just hold clothing just
made out of tarp, sarp and sovereign glue. I guess when you're living
to buy you protect from the element water. They show up to visit my
house, it's just a shopping cars the tarp. It's a tent made of
tarts. It's outside. You can you can go up the road to the
tailor and buy some socks if you'd like to. H Yeah, I'm gonna
get some extra socks and uh, get a couple of beach towels. Here
in sort of a shopping district here, so there's plenty of little shops to
find what you need for socks and beach towels and be like two gold pieces
and you you got plenty. I'm gonna go find the nearest cobblers and get
whatever shoes make me tallest. Platform platform stilettos, you can get some.
You can get some platforms to add about six inches. Uh. I'm taking
up and I'll walk it out with more confidence I've ever had in my life.
All right, those are those are? These are like six gold pieces
are expensive. It's worth it. I'm sorry. They're also gold per inch.
That's a deal. They're also tap shoes platform tap shoes clock. You
can suck your spell and to make a perception checks while you're while you're wandering
around shopping twelve fourteen. You're shopping. This is sort of a commercial district.
There's a lot of little shops here and there, and and little foodstalls
and merchant stalls set up on the sides of the roads and things like that.
There is an old dude, old or old tortal, I said wardle
Wart wld Tortal playing music and just busting, you know, sitting there playing
some old blues song on the guitar. It's a case out in front of
him. People toss the occasional coin and you notice a couple of guys come
up and start hassling from your You're across the street from where he's at.
What are they doing to hassling? One of them grabs his guitar and pulls
out out his hand. The other one too, pushed him up against the
wall. Oh yeah, I'm not right over there. Yeah, with my
new found shoes. I'm very proud of. Hey, hey, you get
out. As he approached, you draw a touch to yourself. I tell
him to cut that shit out. The two that are pushing the old musician
guy. He's the old musician guy is. You can hear him saying something,
but I don't know where he's at. And they're they're come on,
oh man, you're gonna tell us where he's at. And you say that
and draw their attention. They both turned around and the one drops him.
The other one drops his guitar on the ground and said, oh, y'all
trying to come to the rescue. Why don't you move along find something else
to do? Oh no, we're free all afternoon. Bro, you're feeling
good? You feeling brog yo, bucker. You dropped the guitar. That
was rude, And the one who had dropped the guitar looks like the other
one says Tom, that guy just called me rude, and the other one
who had spoken and really originally said that one's mouthy too, Tom. I
think we may be able to do something about that. I'm sliding mood up
about better thing twice, bro, And they sort of look at each other.
Make your intimidation check plus one ten. They're not intimidated by short guys.
They are not intimidated by short guys, luckily. And I'm tall now.
Yeah, character development, So do you do you draw your eggs?
Yeah, yeah, they'll draw weapons and roll initiatives. Sweet eleven. Now
you show up nineteen. All right, so Nico, you are up first
as these guys draw weapons, who are you looking for? Maybe I can
what is that a concert? Is that what it was? Yeah? Con
fourteen? That is a six. So he's not gonna say it. All
right, So that was that Tom and uh these are Yeah, he's come
boiling out of the nearest don't around the around the nearest corner of the score
and starts sticking amongst the damage. Yeah, and he takes uh, he
takes four points of damage or I hope he's not allergic. He swats it
is Pilsner next sor right, Um, I'm going to the guy that was
dropped the guitar. That's the one that. Yeah, I'm gonna go reckless
attack and get advantage on my first Maine attack on him. All right,
make your attack, boll so eighteen on the first attack, the first attack,
he parries as he blocks with that, I spin back around for fifteen
fifteen is gonna miss? He just just you know, sucks us good and
you're a pretty as you say that, he says, just guy called me
a douche. Tom's good, you are, Margo. He attacks you.
He's he's got a scimitar in one hand and dagger in the other. So
does Tom next to him, and he attacks with both. Miss I'm missing
a miss. Yeah, he misses three times. He jumped back to avoid
your axe and got just a little little far out of his own reach.
How are you guys, let's see, Elmer. Are you what in the
middle of the street, still standing across the street? I was. I
was walking up very confidently, So I was like middle of these two,
just out very very sure of myself until I wasn't all right. So this
Tom that just got stung with bees and attacked by an axe attacked Pilsen or
the other time, he's gonna attack it, Elmer. He comes rushing up.
What's your armor class thirteen? Well, he kripp with the dagger and
missed with the other two. As you dodge the simitar, he catches you
with the dagger on the side for a whole six damage. And then it's
your turn. But he makes me bleed my own black I'm gonna I'm gonna
twin spell and in large reduce and attempt to shrink them both, so I
having the big one all right, Napoleon isn't connor the one that got stung
by bees made it. The other one, the one who just stabue is
is now tiny. I also at the same time, just just shoot that
to feet all right, You shoot back ten feet out of his reach.
Startling, also a little bit gooey because he sneezed on him. And it's
back to Wren. I'm gonna draw my two daggers from my hands and walk
toward Tom. So I walk up to him and I say blade, and
then the blades start start flipping all around me, and he must succeed on.
Well, are they right next to each other? Uh? Yeah?
Can I get adjacent to both of them? You give adjacent to both of
them, all right? Then they both have to make a DC fourteen dexterity
save The little one made it, but the one that that just a just
attacked Pilsner did not make it, so he takes nine points of damage him
my blades disappearance, all right, So to regular attacks. Um, but
I'm gonna turn the blades so I'm going non lethal. Okay, make your
attack first attacks of ten, second attacks of twenty three twenty three, he'll
hit he tries the period that you just power right right past his simitar.
Yeah, so he's eating eleven non lethal Just smack him upside the head the
flat of the blade head. He's gonna attack you again. Yeah, he
did feel that one. He's eyes already kind of swelling up a little bit.
Looks like, uh, you know at the end of Rocky two you
have brain damn it? What was your arm request sixteen sixteen? He's gonna
hitch it twice, once with the scimitar and once with the dagger. Is
he faints again with scimitar and sailed and notice its for a total of thirteen
damage. Katie's got some claws. Uh the other one, ren, are
you holding the weapon? I'm holding two daggers? Your hold two daggers.
The other one is going to turn and attack you instead of chasing Elmer because
does he still have to contend with the blades Instantium. See the little one?
What's your armor class thirteen thirteen? He hit with two of his attacks
for fifteen damage? Total? Is that the little one? Total? Yes,
it's the little one? Oh wait he does less before reduced? Yeah,
he reduced is damage by a D four, so for ten damage total.
M nice, that's that's a nice spell. Yeah, I like it.
So it's very head dy. It is your turn now, Elmer.
I'm gonna catapult the guitar. I didn't take a lot. That was the
seven, so yeah, you get him, go ahead, sixth damage.
I gotta I'm up with it. I gotta find a sound for that now.
It should be easy to find a guitar smashing sound for the old hand
hand fair stuff. And then as a as a bonus action, I'm going
to hide, hi, dude, instead of catapulting yourself backwards. He's another
sneeze. Yes, you just yeah, you just take a couple of steps
bad or to the side. There's a cart parked there and you stuck behind
it. Just throw the guitar a cycle and you're now tall enough you can
see over the top. She'll duck behind this little cart. It's a little
green bald head and two eyes. And that's it. That was the That
was a little one he smacked with the guitar, right, No, the
other one, oh is the other one? Okay? All right, then
it is back to Rend's turn. Okay, Ren, the guy that just
attacked me, I'm gonna stab him twice with my baggers or attempt too.
So that's twenty one to hit with the first one that is six damage critic
and then my second one is a thirteen to hit as soon as a miss.
That is a miss, all right, and then I am going to
face step away over right next to where Elmer was and with the face step
because it's autumn, up to two creatures of my choice that I can see
must make a wisdom saving throw or be charmed for up to a minute.
So DC fourteen wisdom saving throw. That's a one unto three. Oh yeah,
that's why. And when I arrive, I'm like, hey, look
at me, fella's Yeah, they both stop fighting and look a little confused.
Put your weapons away real quick, and and we'll cee st fighting for
a moment. We need time out. Everybody time outs are they seem like
they're gonna they're they're they seem like they're like waiting for you to attack,
but they're like, okay, he's got a point and kind of taking a
step back, like maybe they're trying to disengage. All right, I'll stand
down. I'm not raging. So glad you thought that and through humbro and
I'll just rest mood on my shoulder. Okay, Tom, Tom, who
are you too looking for? We're looking for Flanders? Flanders, Ned,
I don't know Flanders. Maybe Fred, there's just Flanders. Fred. This
old man here, he's always hanging out with Flanders and Flanders. Well,
he owes us some money? Oh for what? From protection? Oh you're
one of those types of groups. Yeah, we're insurance salesman. Ah great,
yes, okay. What's your organization called? Should we decide to stay
in this lovely town and also require protection? It's called the Dirty Boots.
The Dirty Boots, What a lovely name. He's pretty forthcoming because he's like,
well, this guy's pretty friendly. I like him. How long are
they termed? In one minute? How watch this Flanders? Are you all
Flanders? Well he hasn't paid up in a couple of weeks, so it's
like ten or fifteen gold pieces? Can put it on a card, a
card? Yeah, I pull out the card, take cards? What am
I gonna do with that? You run it, you get the money.
I don't want I gonna run the The potion lady used it. He looks
at the other Tom and both maybe they don't have that service, you know,
if you can't use the card. He peep, we're gonna do with
the car. Hum. Where does Flanders normally go? Where does he work?
Does he have like a storefront that you protect? How do you protect
him? No, he's usually out here playing, playing the saxophone, and
him in old Sam there and he nods towards the other, the old Oh
musician, who's who's picking up his busted guitar? Are you street performers or
are you just houseless? You're addressing the old man picking up a guitar.
He turns his head and said, well kind of boats. Well that's uh.
I guess you can be two things at once, like Tom and Tom
are multiple things. I guess, so, um, are we done here?
I think it's probably been a minute, But Tom's are like, yeah,
I think we're done here. Look, and they turned to the old
man again, say, if you see Flanders, you tell them we're looking
for and you better tell us where you saw him the next time we come
by, and they both turn and head off. I just keep eye contact
the whole time they take off. They don't, they don't look back.
They don't see him too worried about much there. Did I see like a
music shop or a minstrel shop or anything like that where they might have a
new guitar for sale? Um? Yeah, you passed it. There was
like a pawn shop up the road where you saw some more guitars and stuff
in the windowsn't okay? Uh you guys, check on Sam. I'll be
right back. I'm gonna go and see if I can buy a guitar for
less than fifty gold. Yeah, I'll got check on Sam. I think
you can buy a guitar for less than fifty gold. You want to take
the card? This is the wrong one. Now I'll do this one out
of my own goodness. I don't want I don't want any good uh juju.
Going back to the great terror, Pin Todd, Where do you get
that black eye? Dude? I want to talk about it. Yeah,
it looks like a mused guitar you can get for around twenty five gold.
Okay, Well I will subtract that decent one. I assume they have that.
Yeah, okay, I also track that from my money. Yeah,
there's just a few few doors up the road, So you go check on
Tom. Like I said, he's picking up the pieces of guitar and shaking
his head, and picks the last couple of coins out of his guitar case
and says, well, I guess I'm gonna have to find something else to
make money until I can get a new guitar, and he sort of glares
at Elmer a little bit, as he could be dead instead, the only
one I'm gonna kill me. Just rough rough me up a little tell of
them talking about them. Gone bro enough today, Just don't break eye contact.
I'm stare up down. He's going stand up a little bit, reached
my whole four and a half foot height. You stayed up a little bit
straighter, and he flinches back platform shoes of intimidation give him the crazy eyes
from from the new kitchen, Old man Goblin. There's a there's a visual,
and they're looking for my old friend Flanders. So how'd you guys get
mixed up with those kind of goods? Oh? Those thugs they come by
shake us down every once in a while. It seems like APPRETI shitty thing
to do. Yeah it's not great, but what can you do? So
is they're like a bunch of them or oh yeah, yeah, those boys
they they worked for one of the merchant companies. You know, I'm not
sure which one those fellows even worked for. But if you don't work for
one of the companies, they they walk all over around here. But we're
doing a couple of odd jobs for one of the merchant companies. But I
don't think here they're associated with those guys. A guy we've been talking to,
he's kind of a douche. Maybe a couple of odd jobs, y'all
job type. We just kind of got drifted in town. We helped him
retreat one of their merchant boats from the bayou, and uh down there around
running run off wherever a crossing and runoff that other town. But yeah,
we're just in town for a couple that just got in trying to take in
the sights and saw them getting all brody with you said that ain't right.
Well, I appreciate you stepping in when you did. Would have been a
rough day from me. Well you've been rougher, cool, no problem,
bro. You left some in here, And I reached down toward his case
and I dropped five. Pick it back up and bring it to him.
There. These are for you, bro, So I didn't leave him,
didn't I thank you. I appreciate you pointing those out to me, he
says, and gives you a wink and ran. Yeah. The transactions pretty
straightforward. Go in, I'd like that guitar, I assume, and he
brings you up, so you're you're walking back up with a new guitar for
him, just as Pilzer's handing him some gold pieces. All right, well
I got this for you man, a pack of new strings too, So
here you go. All right, it's like you're back in business, bro,
I guess so. Boy, you guys really turned my day round.
I'm very appreciative that you happened by just when you did. That was quite
convenient. Huh. If you see any more of the shitty boot guys,
you should probably try to stay away from them. Yeah. I usually try
to, but they catch up with me. I don't move as fast as
I used to. We hung out with a guitarist, but we're the ones
that beat the Toms rush. I'll be here all week. I'm a performer
too, you see. Apparently so or Leaven run with him? Oh uh?
Sam? Right, yeah, Sam, there was a place called the
Three Legged Snake. Could you point us in that direction? Oh? Yeah,
it's a good place. You want to head back down to towards the
waterfront and take a left, and he gives you directions to get back to
the three Legged Snake, which is not too awful far from the uh the
caravan office there where you guys bought your chest or ordered your chest? Um,
yeah, anything else you want to chat with him about, you guys,
head over to the three Legged Snake. What's the Yeah, I think
I'm good to head to the three Legged Sneak. Yeah, yeah, I'm
hungry. This concludes this episode of A Fool's Quest. Could join us next
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